Liberal Regenerator Party

The Liberal Regenerator Party was a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that existed from 1901 to 1910. The party was led by Joao Franco, who served as Prime Minister from 1906 to 1908. His party supported the constitutional monarchy and supported Catholicism as the state religion, and he passed laws on public accounting, ministerial responsibility, the press, and the repression of anarchists. In 1907, Franco established an authoritarian government in response to republican unrest, and the party was thrown out of the government after it was held responsible for the events that led up to the 1908 assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal.